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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74698	Logoi Ōraioi. Three seasonable sermons the first preach't at St. Mary's in Cambridge, May 31. 1642. The others designed for publick auditories, but prevented. / By Tho. Stephens, M.A.	Stephens, Thomas, fl. 1648-1677.	1660 (1660)	Thomason E1839_2; ESTC R210165	57,540	136

Mountain at a great distance has seemed to vanish into the Air and prove a little nothing suffer your selves to be undeceived search the Scriptures and if ye be of Davids faith put on Davids conscience who after he had cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily his heart smote him and his tears wash'd out his faule 1 Samuel 24.6 The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords Anointed to stretch forth my hand against him seeing he is the anointed of the Lord He did but cut off a lap and shall we lay our Lords anointed naked Naked not to relieve his wants naked to discover if any were his shames If we be Christians it makes good our title to him he is Christus Domini The Lords Christ if we be Protesants I speak it again such as disclaiming the names of Papists would not degenerate into their Religion we must confess that damnation is the portion of him that resists this ordinance of God Shall Isaiah call Cyrus the Lords anointed Baruch and Jeremiah bid us pray for Nebuchodonoser Peter and Paul command submission to Tyberius Nero and Caligula all heathenish persecuting Emperors and we neglect our Constantine our Theodesius the dew of Heaven which is fallen upon this fleece of England when all the World is wet with blood besides If we shall abuse his patience into fury can we expect any less judgment then to be forced under that fury to practise Patience If any then neglecting the Urim and the Prophets the establisht ordinance of God as fanatick Saul did 1 Sam. 28. and recurr to Wizards wise women as you call them and inquire of them the event of such a battle as this would prove they may perhaps bring you to Samuels Ghost some Devill in a Prophets likeness but look for no better success then he fourd there the death of your selves and your Sons The stars in their course from Heaven will fight against Sisera conjurati venient in classca venti the wind and the hail-stones will muster up their forces against Adonizedek and his confederates But for you which despise Micah and his private new fangled devotion which resist Dan and his riotous tumultuous assemblies which would cool Benjamin and his goatish ravenous lust make it your care to continue a Rex in Israel Suffer no Baanahs and Rechabs that dare murther Kings there beds no Bightans and Tharezes that dare entertain the motion in their hearts to live amongst you Oyles by experience we know will mix although power'd into a vessel much water be put betwixt them You which have found the Oyle of the holy Spirit in your hearts let it joyne your hearts and commix your souls to the Oyle upon the head of Gods anointed That thus the religion of your hearts may burst our of joyfull lips with prayers That God would visit him as he did Moses in the bush Joshua in the Battell Gideon in the field David in the Temple that the dew of his abundant mercies may fall upon his head and that he would give unto him the blessings of David and Solomon That he would he his helmet of Salvation against the face of all his enemies and a strong Tower of defence in the time of adversity That his raign may be prosperous and his dayes many That peace and love holynesse and Justice and Truth all Christain Vertues may flourish in his time That his people may serve him with Honour and Obedience and that he may so duly serve God here on Earth that he may hereafter everlastingly raign with God in Heaven Amen Amen The Second SERMON JUDGES 4.23 Curse ye Meroz said the Angel of the Lord yea curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the Lord against the mighty A Text no doubt in season we have an age to Curse in I to curse bitterly too tanquam venena Aspidum the poyson of Aspes is under our lips And these lips we think are touched by the Angel of God too A coal from the Altar at least has fired our tongues Nay we are grown valiant of late we dare go out to fight now and make the people believe it is to the help of the Lord And that no title be left out 't is to the help the Lord against the mighty too Our pulpits by their Almighty power can create new forces and in one nights space proclaim them mighty whom our Saterdays night Pamphlets told us where to be pittied for their weakness Thus can we wrest the Scripture to our own destruction and gain this credit when we are once unmaskt that we have been plausible deceivers 'T is no new rule that corruptio optima fit pessima That the most Sovereign antidote when the Spirits are decay'd or that it self by some unskilfull Emperick mis-apply'd proves oftentimes the rankest poyson And I know indigefting stomachs may corrupt the most nourishing meats and the sweetest flowers may stink of his breath that smells them Thus that pure that sacred fountain of Holy Scripture whence the waters of life are drawn in their own Christall integrity when it is royld with our inventions proves aqua mortis the poyson'd waters of Sodom The standing lake which neither flows to other Contryes nor nourishes in their own tuus esse incipit This book of God so abused does God as little or less service then the Turkish Alcoran or the old Romane-Tables I know this place was never meant for controversy The intent of Sermons was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for conclusions to edification not for disputation they should not rob the chair But yet when Sheba shall dare to blow the Trumpet in the high-way and renounce his inheritance in David 't is time for Joab to cast a bank about his City and besiege him If any unprejudicate and well-affected Christians have drank in poyson at their ears which now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inflames their souls sets them a fire on mischief I shall desire which I do on my knees to heaven by a plain lesson on Deboras harp to disenchant them and by a true though homely relation of this story here a relation in which neither language nor method shall be concise to undeceive them The people of Israel Gods own inheritance was at this time under the government of their Judges which had then the supream authority Which authority whether it were the same with what their Kings did after injoy or onely a praeparative to it an Usher to the royall dignity I will not here determine Yet this I am sure of it came from Heaven and God himself was Author of it for when the common people queis semper mutare potentes principium est whose brains are alwaies turning round upon their changes did in the following story desire a King which might seem an honourable and fair exchange whether ye regard their higher credit with other nations or their greater security against forraign powers or the praedetermination

to the deadly stroak of the enemies to secure the person of their Emperors Others leaping alive into their Funeral piles as if they could do them no later no greater service But I will name no more lest their dust fly in our eyes so blinde and eclipse the glory of Christians For let me seriously put the question Are we Christions Do we know the vertue of in Oath What think we then of that solemn Oath of our Allegiance An Oath which can receive no dispensation no absolution from what power soever Are we Protestants Nay one step farther yet are we Protestors What think we then of that branch of the late Protestation that I will maintain the establisht doctrine of the Church as it stands in opposition to Popery and Popish Innovations I conceive this mainly material to the work in hand therefore give me leave a while to insist upon it What is the doctrine of the School of Jesuits Bellarmines position will fully tell us non licere Christianis tolerare regem haereticum c. Princes falling into Apostacie from the faith or heresie in the faith lose all dominion over their Subjects and our own Countriman Parsons goes a little farther that the People if they can gather strength sufficient ought to depose such an unworthy Governour and like apt Scholars they will learn their lesson quickly for thus a Jacobine with an Assassination shall soon make good in practise what their School hath taught them Thus without much straining they make good the Text Those there work their pleasure because there was no King in Israel these here will have no King because they might the more freely work their pleasure Contrary to this is established doctrine of the Church of England in the 37th Article The Kings Majesty his the chief power in this Realm of England and his other Dominions and is not nor ought to be subject to any Jurisdiction whatsoever but may and must restrain with the sword the Stubborne and Evil doers Farr different it seems from that he is tobe restrained by Stubborne and Evil-doers upon a pretence of his evill doing To which purpose are those six parts of the homily against Rebellion so full and apposite that we must either disclaim them from being the interpreters of the Doctrine of our Church or sit down convinc'd in the manifest truth of this assertion To these I shall and the Testimony of some unquestioned Divines amongst us purposely avoiding the authority of such who are amongst some men perhaps unworthily suspected lest their names prove a blemish to the Calendar Bishop Cranmer in his Necessary Erudition for Christian Men A work composed by him and other Divines of Henry the Eight and printed long since by the same King upon the fifth Commandement declares that by it we are bound not to withdraw our Fealty Truths Love and Obedience from our Princes for what cause soever it be nor yet for any cause may we conspire against his Person nor do any thing towards the hindrance or hurt thereof or of his Estate Not long after Bishop Hooper upon the same commandement determines that if he be naught that rules the place he is in it is the Order and work of God so if thou put a difference between the Office it self which is good and the Officer which is evill it shall keep thee in a religious fear that thou reverence a good and godly Government in a bad Governour Bishop Latimer a Companion of them both in a Sermon upon Twelfday tells us that we may for nothing in the World observe the Universality rebell against the Ordinance of God that is the Magistrate All these three glorious Saints did in their Actions consirme their Doctrine and in the days of Queen Mary received the triumphant crown of Martyrdom obeying her in suffering for that which their consciences would not give them leave actually to perform Next them comes that painfull and Reverend Bishop Jewel who dispuring the Case with Harding drawes issue in the story Chilperick of France whom the Nobles deposed the people were contented with it and then Pope confirmed it rebellion as well strengthened as we could wish yet did his Succcessor Pepin scarce ever with quiet injoy the Kingdom and of the nine Generations which were all that of that race succeeeded hardly one was found which went down into the grave in peace Dr. Humpheryes Sermons upon Abisha's story 1 Sam. 26. are so full to our cause in hand that I should do him wrong to cite any part of him and not spin it put to a just Treatise I referr yee to the book it self as also to Bishop Bancrofts English-Scottzing Bishop King in his 35. Lecture on Jonas makes it the very case of the Brownist who in his reformation would tread Conscience Obedience Religion and Duty both to God and Man under foot Whereupon the Reverend Bishop Davenant in his twelfth determined Question tells us induant quam venlint pietatis larvan● isti Magistratuum marke that Magistratuum not Religionum reformatores Albiniani tamen Nigriani out Cassiani rectius audient quam Christiani Let them mask under what cloak they will Religion may be their plea but Rebellion is their practise I shall forbear the envy of naming such as are still alive amongst us of whom Bishop Morton is not the least But one passage of the Reverend Primate of Armagh in a speech in the Castle Chamber may not be forborne because of the Universality of the position There is nothing so contrary to the nature of Soveraignty which I hope we still allow our Kings if not how fell they from it as to have any Superiour power to over-rule them Qui Rex est Regem Maxime non habeat I forbear Seravia because although one of our Church yet a stranger born and the Learned Erwin of Scotland their works will testify sufficiently Yet if you desire to know the consentient opinion of the Protestant Divines take Calvin in his 25. Sect. of his 4. book of Institutions Beza in his exposition on the 13. to to the Rom. and the Harmony of them all in the confession of the Helvetian Divines in the 19. Sect. Article 25. They have prepared against Sophistications in their Anathema there is put in both the palam and the Arte too whosoever openly by offence as well as cunningly pretending defence shall do it there is a damnamus past upon him there is sentence given by the Church against him acquit him who will These are men whose names will tell you never were yet suspected for a Malignant Party Should we blot out these from the Catalogue of the Churchy I fear we had but a poor Charter for our Religion if we esteem them as they are Protestants I wonder how we can make so brave a flourish with this late taken Protestation in our hats and banish the genuine interpretation from our hearts If then there be any here with whom that sacred name of Majesty like a high